What Is Perestroika

question 26

Multiple Choice

What is perestroika?

• A)greater openness, a policy in the 1980s that encouraged several republics to demand independence
• B)restructuring of the planned centralized economy, an early move toward a freer market
• C)a policy of education improvement, in the last days of the former Soviet Union
• D)the Russian word for railroad
• E)improvement of the Russian environment

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